Shengqing Wu (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)

Shengqing Wu holds a PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently a professor of Chinese literature at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Prior to teaching in Hong Kong, she was an associate professor at Wesleyan University. Wu’s research interests encompass the literary and intellectual history of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century China, image-text relations, the history of Chinese photography, and sensory studies. She has received fellowships from the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute.

Selected Publications

• Wu, Shengqing, and Xuelei Huang, eds. Sensing China: Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture. London: Routledge, 2023.
• Wu, Shengqing. Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media. New York: Columbia University Press, 2020.
• Wu, Shengqing. Modern Archaics: Continuity and Innovation in the Chinese Lyric Tradition, 1900–1937. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2013.